Battle Lines Harden Over New Transmission Policy for Renewable Energy. By Peter Behr, ClimateWire, February 26, 2010. "A group of Pacific Northwest and California power companies has joined utilities from the Southeast and other regions to oppose widespread cost-sharing for transmission expansion to carry wind and solar power to distant markets. A letter from 14 power companies and organizations in the Northwest, sent Feb. 19 to Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), calls for developers and customers of new renewable power to pay for transmission connecting their projects to customers. 'A policy that assigns costs of new transmission facilities to the users of new transmission facilities will properly allocate the costs,' according to the letter, whose signers include the Oregon Municipal Electric Utilities Association, the Sacramento Municipal Utility District, and the Washington Public Utility Districts Association in Washington state. The letter is identical in large part to one the two Senate leaders received Feb. 9 from 27 companies, written by Bruce Edelston, president of the Energy Policy Group in Atlanta, on behalf of Southern Co. and others on the letter."
2010-03-05
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